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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

The Bulletin publishes expository articles on contemporary mathematical research, written in a way that gives insight to mathematicians who may not be experts in the particular topic. The Bulletin also publishes reviews of selected books in mathematics and short articles in the Mathematical Perspectives section, both by invitation only.

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Contents of Volume 38, Number 4
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A mad day’s work: from Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich The evolution of concepts of space and symmetry
Pierre Cartier PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 389-408
Which are the simplest algebraic varieties?
János Kollár PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 409-433
Probability laws related to the Jacobi theta and Riemann zeta functions, and Brownian excursions
Philippe Biane, Jim Pitman and Marc Yor PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 435-465
Note from the book reviews editor
Bhama Srinivasan PDF
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 499-499

Book Reviews
Book reviews do not contain an abstract. You may download each review in this issue using the links below.

The geometry of schemes, by David Eisenbud and Joe Harris.
Reviewer: Igor Dolgachev
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 467-473
Profinite groups, by J. S. Wilson.
Profinite groups, by L. Ribes and P. Zalesskii.
Analytic pro-$p$ groups, by J. D. Dixon, M. P. F. du Sautoy, A. Mann and D. Segal.
New horizons in pro-$p$ groups, edited by M. du Sautoy, D. Segal and A. Shalen.
Reviewer: Alexander Lubotzky
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 475-479
Gröbner deformations of hypergeometric differential equations, by M. Saito, B. Sturmfels and N. Takayama.
Reviewer: Mikhail Kapranov
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 481-488
Quantum fields and strings: A course for mathematicians, Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Pierre Deligne, Pavel Etingof, Daniel S. Freed, Lisa C. Jeffrey, David Kazhdan, John W. Morgan, David R. Morrison and Edward Witten.
Reviewer: Louis H. Kauffman
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 489-494
Dynamics in one complex variable, Introductory lectures, by John Milnor.
Reviewer: John Hubbard
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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2001), 495-498